DEVORE >> Fashion at the two-day Beyond Wonderland music festival predictably featured a lot of entertaining outfits. It was clear that of the thousands who attended the festival Friday night that many people looked like they put a lot of...

Academy Awards

Leave it to our favorite stars to bring sunshine to the Oscars on a soggy Sunday outisde the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. There was the usual pop of color, airy fabrics and skin bearing gowns, but those classic looks in metallics and the penguin palette really took the stage. Granted, Sienna Miller’s black and navy Oscar de la Renta with velvet bow details was stunning. Another favorite was seen on new mom Rosamund Pike, who looked flawless in a fitted strapless,...

Academy Awards

Reese Witherspoon is on a mission for women. The actress launched her production company Pacific Standard with Bruna Papandrea four years ago, aimed at creating films with strong female characters. The company’s first film, “Gone Girl,” was nominated for an Academy Award on Sunday for Rosamund Pike in the best actress category, as was Witherspoon herself for another Pacific Standard film, “Wild.” But going into the night Witherspoon was...

Academy Awards

Anna Kendrick’s tangerine halter gown was made by Thakoon, a relatively new designer on the red carpet. With its sparkling neck piece and keyhole cutout, the dress was trending on social media. Kendrick performed in the 87th Academy Awards opening number. The star, known for her musical performances in “Pitch Perfect,” “Into the Woods,” and “The Last Five Years,” is set to show off her vocal talents in a special performance during the...

Award shows

Dakota Johnson is no longer tied up — in a relationship, that is. According to recent reports, the “Fifty Shades of Grey” star reportedly split from her longtime boyfriend Matthew Hitt, so it wasn’t surprising when she walked the 87th Academy Awards red carpet with her mom, actress Melanie Griffith. But rather than looking blue, Johnson was looking 50 shades of red hot in a bright red, curve hugging Saint Laurent dress and bejeweled strap with...

Fairs and festivals

The snow at the Rose Bowl this weekend won’t shut down roads or block access to neighboring parks. Olympic gold medalist Shaun White’s Air + Style festival should cause less delays than a typical UCLA game, according to Pasadena police. “It’s not going to be closed, but there will be some parking restrictions and...

Flower gardening

“Love Potion No. 9” may not just be stuff of music and movies. Frank McDonough of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden thinks that a mix of fragrant plants can help one be lucky in love this Valentine’s Day. McDonough isn’t actually recommending concocting any magical elixir to woo anyone, but he’s a firm believer in cultivating a backyard filled with plants that tantalize one’s sense of smell and then some. “Scent...

Home & Garden

Cool. Iconic. Modern. Those are the three words organizers are using to define the 10th annual Palm Springs Modernism Week, which will take locals and visitors alike back in time to when cheese was best out of a can, tiki drinks were all the rage and Frank Sinatra topped the charts. The yearly 11-day celebration of mid-century modern fashion, design and culture takes over the desert city for an interactive history lesson that includes 150 events from architectural tours —...

Elective cosmetic procedures

SAO PAULO >> Andressa Urach went from being a single teenage mom nicknamed “Beanpole” to a reality TV bombshell in Brazil thanks to silicone implants, anabolic steroids, a nose job, and gel and botox injections, a fact she wasn’t ashamed to share with fans. “There are plenty of ugly women,” she said last year. “If you have the money, you can be beautiful. This pretty face you see here, my dear, it costs some.” More, it turns...

By Adriana Gomez Licon
Associated Press
|on 01/27/2015

Screen Actors Guild Awards

One thing is for certain: old Hollywood never gets, well, old. Hollywood’s brightest stars walked the red carpet at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, showing off soft, retro curls and glamorous gowns that draped, clung and floated. Joanna Going always leans toward vintage fashion and on Sunday, the “House of Cards” actress hit the carpet in a black vintage Yves Saint Laurent dress that she found at Rachel Zabar Vintage, of...